With private companies starting space missions and eying destinations beyond Earth orbit, NASA has already been looking into how to protect American lunar artifacts.

The Apollo Lunar Landing Legacy Act would preserve the Apollo 11 through 17 landing sites (excepting, of course, Apollo 13, which didn't touch down on the moon), and call on the Secretary of the Interior and NASA apply to make the Apollo 11 landing site a United Nations World Heritage Site.

So far, it seems the proposal might have trouble lifting off, given that it has no Republican co-sponsors, and Republicans control the House.

While your chances of visiting the landing sites also aren't good, you can check them out virtually, in photos, by clicking on through this gallery.

Here, Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong steps down from the lunar module lander and becomes the first person to set foot on the moon, on July 20,1969.

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With private companies starting space missions and eying destinations beyond Earth orbit, NASA has already been looking into how to protect American lunar artifacts.

The Apollo Lunar Landing Legacy Act would preserve the Apollo 11 through 17 landing sites (excepting, of course, Apollo 13, which didn't touch down on the moon), and call on the Secretary of the Interior and NASA apply to make the Apollo 11 landing site a United Nations World Heritage Site.

So far, it seems the proposal might have trouble lifting off, given that it has no Republican co-sponsors, and Republicans control the House.

While your chances of visiting the landing sites also aren't good, you can check them out virtually, in photos, by clicking on through this gallery.

Here, Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong steps down from the lunar module lander and becomes the first person to set foot on the moon, on July 20,1969.